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to an informal dinner at the White House on Friday. This would not mean much
under other administrations, but it means a great deal under the Wilson regime
because they entertain practically not at all excepting formal state dinners.
Late last night I received a fifteen or twenty minute telephone message
from Baruch. He is disturbed over the crisis which seems to have arisen in the
Council for National Defence circles. The Council is formulating a new plan
for purchasing which Baruch does not consider workable. He is sending Lincoln
Colcord here with the details in order that I may be informed and advise what is
best in the premises.
Colcord arrived at half past five o'clock, hot-foot from Washington. I
talked to him long and earnestly, but declined to commit myself to any program
for the reason that I have as yet but one side of the controversy<add>,</add> and I am not
willing to take the matter up with the President without having the full picture
before me. Colcord remained to dinner and we had an interesting evening until
time for him to leave on his return trip to Washington.
July 12, 1917.
Dr. Hollis Godfrey, of the Commission for National Defence, telephoned from
Boston, he, too, having come from Washington to tell of the troubles in Council
circles. I had to listen to him as I did to Colcord and Baruch, without let-
ting him know that I had the story before in all its details. He left a
memorandum which the Commission have passed up to the Council and which I at-
tach to this record in order to explain the differences which exist.
Wiseman telephoned for nearly an hour explaining his conversation
with McAdoo, and telling of the financial crisis which, for the time, has been
averted. He thought McAdoo spoke too slightingly of the Allies, which was
one cause of the friction existing between his Department and the Allied repre-
sentatives in this country. Wiseman said if McAdoo spoke to the others as he
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to an informal dinner at the White House on Friday. This would not mean much
under other administrations, but it means a great deal under the Wilson regime
because they entertain practically not at all excepting formal state dinners.
Late last night I received a fifteen or twenty minute telephone message
from Baruch. He is disturbed over the crisis which seems to have arisen in the
Council for National Defence circles. The Council is formulating a new plan
for purchasing which Baruch does not consider workable. He is sending Lincoln
Colcord here with the details in order that I may be informed and advise what is
best in the premises.
Colcord arrived at half past five o'clock, hot-foot from Washington. I
talked to him long and earnestly, but declined to commit myself to any program
for the reason that I have as yet but one side of the controversy |
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